TheAlphaW0lf
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An unexpected pressure point for him is the sound of balloons rubbing against each other. 20 years since he’d been taken. 20 years since the black balloons and the magician that was anything but. And it still gets him, that whiney, squeaky noise.
But Addie’s turning 14. Addie wanted balloons for her birthday. Addie wanted a cacophony of color and light and music and joy and how could Finn deny her such childish delights?20 years since that horrible basement, and Finney Blake still can't get over the fear simmering in his chest. Fear that it could happen again even now. Fear that his daughter is growing up too fast. Fear that the fact he wishes she could be a child forever isn't just some normal paternal twang of the heart. Fear that it changed him, what happened down there. Fear that he'll hurt her somehow. Fear that he already has with his distance.
Addie Blake knows nothing of what happened to her father. And if her father has his way, she never will. But the kids at school gossip something awful, there's some voyeuristic journalist out to write another book about it, and the man she sees in her dreams seems oddly familiar.
He says he knew her father as a boy.